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Court Upholds Texas Pastor's Conviction
A New Orleans appellate court has upheld the conviction of a Texas Panhandle pastor accused enslaving a foreign woman.
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NEW ORLEANS (September 11, 2009)-An appeals court has upheld the conviction of a Texas pastor accused of bringing a woman from Kenya to the U.S. to be his sex slave.
James Cornell Clark, 57, was sentenced to 10 years in 2007 on a charge of importing an alien for immoral purposes.
A panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the conviction and sentence Thursday.
Clark's attorney had argued that the term "immoral purposes" is unconstitutionally vague.
Clark, who was a minister at Mount Vernon United Methodist Church in Lubbock, met his victim in 2005 and months later arranged for her to travel to Texas.
She enrolled at South Plains College in Levelland, and prosecutors say Clark frequently threatened to have her deported if she didn't have sex with him.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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attorney had argued that the term "immoral purposes" is unconstitutionally vague... WTF?????????? him and the judge friends?
Another man of God that can't be trusted! Our society is falling apart faster than we can fix it!
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